AS FOR THE HISTORICAL narrative on scientific, literary and cultural progress in Islamic lands, from the Rightly-Guided Caliphate through the…

THERE IS NO CREATIVITY, progress or civilizational growth – cultural, technological or scientific – while thinkers remain boxed in by…

IN SHARĪ‘A IT HAS two aspects: collective and individual. The collective aspect is to do one’s best to remove everything…

THE WORD FATWĀ is mentioned in a number of Qur’ānic verses including: Then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those…

THE ALMIGHTY SAID: Surely the religion with Allah is Islam[1] while the concept of mercy linguistically basically denotes tenderness, kindness and sympathy,…

BUT IS IT LOGICAL to reduce the entire issue to these Islamic centres, and can they actually perform this act?…

A MAJOR CONTROVERSY has erupted in Egypt following the denial by a preacher named Khālid al-Jundī, a member of the…

THE ḥūr al-‘ayn theme populates most Islamic sources and references, and here I will just summarise these by focusing on two…

CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…

I WILL LIST some of the things that cast some light on the above statement, and bring in some other…